Re: UNH Wildcats 2015-2016 (Part One) - Return of the "Champions of December"??
Re: UNH Wildcats 2015-2016 (Part One) - Return of the "Champions of December"??
Chuck I'm with you on this sentiment, but to be perfectly honest I think broad thinking individuals such as us are in the minority. All I have to do is remind you of the juvenile reaction of most of the UNH hockey fanbase to playing a game or two in Manchester...couldn't see the forest for the trees. The provincial, self-serving nature of that whining was a disgrace, and was one of many things that have turned me off a bit to the program.
Re: UNH Wildcats 2015-2016 (Part One) - Return of the "Champions of December"??
Totally agreed 100%. It's my biggest complaint with the higher-ups - past and present - that not more was done to get the word out, especially when they had a quality product out on the ice. With all of the progress that's been made in recent years with Football, I'm frankly seeing the same short-sighted approach yet again.
This is not a geographically huge state. Perhaps with the rise to prominence of the Durham-Pease-Portsmouth economic engine, we'll see a more pervasive media focus on things in our corner of the world in the next generation? But UNH has had the tools and the capacity to do a better job of publicizing its flagship program(s) for awhile now, and to the extent that most of that work has been done instead by hard-working volunteer groups like FOH (or its Football equivalent) is a shame, and a poor reflection on those actually being paid for doing that publicity work around the state. I just talked about the possibility of some complacency in the locker room this season, but whatever complacency (if any?) may be in the program, is dwarfed in comparison by those higher up in the Athletics food chain. JMHO.
Chuck I'm with you on this sentiment, but to be perfectly honest I think broad thinking individuals such as us are in the minority. All I have to do is remind you of the juvenile reaction of most of the UNH hockey fanbase to playing a game or two in Manchester...couldn't see the forest for the trees. The provincial, self-serving nature of that whining was a disgrace, and was one of many things that have turned me off a bit to the program.